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by hvs 10mo ago
The figurines can wait but often the graduate student or postdoc cannot.
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by hvs 10mo ago
Disco Elysium is truly a wonderful game for adventure/rpg fans. I have a small fraction of the time I had as a younger man to play games so I have to be very selective with my choices and Disco Elysium has taken up a large portion of t
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by hvs 11mo ago
If it makes you feel any better, that's about the age I started functioning mostly like an adult. It started around 30 but took a good decade to take hold.
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by hvs 11mo ago
You certainly don't need to have someone in your life -- as someone who married late and has two kids now I sometimes look back on my long period of begin single with fondness -- but I would also recommend being very honest with your
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by hvs 11mo ago
It's not that one.
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by hvs 11mo ago
Anything that contributes to you not needing to actually "think" and instead just "react" is going to be bad for you because it is simply engaging your reward system. The only way LLMs can be a net good is if they free y
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by hvs 11mo ago
Basically? It's a "sense" or "vibe". "There was a guy begging on the street" is what I remember. Not the actual words or a picture, just the "vibe" of that sentence. Definitely no touches, sounds
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by hvs 11mo ago
I "know" that I saw someone begging on the street. I might remember other "facts" as they seemed appropriate. But that's it. If you asked me what color their hair was or what they were wearing I would have no idea u
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by hvs 11mo ago
Personally, I remember "facts" about the event. Like, who was there, when it was, what was said. I don't have mental images of an event.
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by hvs 11mo ago
If you have something to describe "in your mind's eye" then you don't have aphantasia. We can't "see" anything in our mind.
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by hvs 1y ago
Calculations show that everything we see today, from atoms to galaxies, exists because just one extra particle of matter survived for every billion matter–antimatter pairs. Everything about the Universe boggles the mind, but I
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by hvs 1y ago
So in our entirely sanitized and sterilized environments we would be free from airborne and waterborne disease, but the moment we step outside of it our underdeveloped immune systems would be incapable of fighting off the common cold? That
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by hvs 1y ago
Get in the habit of putting your phone down when you are in the room with your child. Don't have it on the dinner table, or anywhere you would socialize with your children. It's really best to just avoid using it as much as possib
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by hvs 1y ago
I don't actually disagree with anything in this article, I would just argue that at some point you might want to consider why you are so interested in "fast career growth". Is it more money? More recognition? More power? To
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by hvs 1y ago
Until microcomputer boom of the 70's and 80's there was the calculator boom of the early 70's. The availability of the microprocessor made small calculators widely available for the first time and they were very popular among
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by hvs 2y ago
I find it ironic that there's a big "Follow @index@simone.org via your Fediverse account (like...)" over this article that I can't seem to close and covers up part of the article.
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by hvs 2y ago
As a backend developer, I have a lot of respect for frontend developers that have to deal with edge-cases and minutiae that we don't have to. Building APIs and interfaces for computers is easy. Building them for people is HARD.
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by hvs 2y ago
Because every computer record has a host of qualifiers on it (like "programmable", "fully automatic").
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by hvs 2y ago
When I was first diagnosed I ate Subway for about year. It was the only thing that didn't make me completely sick. Now I can't touch the stuff.
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by hvs 2y ago
Mine is primarily in my large intestine, so it's like a weird combination of Crohn's and UC, which could be why it causes so much nausea. Remission for me was just sort of luck and time. I was first diagnosed at 28, was on a ton o
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by hvs 2y ago
As someone with Crohn's disease (thankfully now in remission) I can fully relate. Nausea is the worst symptom because it is so debilitating. You don't want to do anything when you are nauseated and when it goes on for months that
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by hvs 2y ago
Mattias is a wizard of woodworking. His other site has numerous amazing projects: https://woodgears.ca/index.html (like a 26" bandsaw: https://woodgears.ca/big_bandsaw/26in.html and pantorouter:
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by hvs 2y ago
"VVV" in Morse code means "attention, incoming message". Cool to see amateur radio and fldigi in a Hacker News article.
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by hvs 2y ago
I don't think we ever thought they were particularly good or realistic, just the best we could do with the limitations of the time.
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by hvs 2y ago
Yeah, this was an incredibly unique game that I played hours of in high school. It obviously looks dated now, but was amazing at the time.
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by hvs 2y ago
Well, it's been shady for at least 2.5 decades.
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by hvs 2y ago
NASA, probably more than any private organization has reams of documentation. Every bolt is documented. Maybe, just maybe, electronic systems are more complicated than bridges and buildings that literally just sit there. I do agree that we
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by hvs 2y ago
Turbo Pascal 6 was the first high-level language I learned after BASIC and my first job out of college was doing Delphi development. I loved programming in Pascal, not so much because of the syntax (it gets a bit clunky at times) but becaus
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by hvs 2y ago
For a very engaging documentary about the remaining team of Voyager 1 scientists, watch "It's Quieter in the Twilight". The ending kind of tails off, mostly due to the Covid pandemic, but it's a great look into how a gro
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by hvs 2y ago
I think the primary benefit of ARRL (and the main reason I'm a member) is that they do regulatory and legislative advocacy for amateur radio bands. https://www.arrl.org/regulatory-advocacy

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